M5.2 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Samoa Islands
GEOFON GFZ reports M5.2 near Samoa Islands, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.
The event began at Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:36:29 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.2, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -13.430, -172.008.
The catalog location label is Samoa Islands; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 3.98e+12 joules, or about 951 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.
The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. No separate intensity or catalog-significance detail is available from this provider record. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.
GEOFON GFZ has not supplied a review status in the normalized record. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. No alternate network solution is attached to this record.
The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.
At a glance
- Magnitude 5.2
- 10.0 km catalog depth
- 3.98e+12 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:36:29 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- GEOFON GFZ monitoring record